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Doc on Radio
Today's Iceberg Award goes to... Verizon Wireless! Joyce can't reach my office on the cell phone. Calls to it from my end are answered by "Message #3," which says the phone has been disconnected or is no longer in service. The greeting message says "Welcome to Verizon Wireless, formerly GTE Wireless. Simple, affordable, national!" The penultimate voice on the call-in maze says, "The next available associate will be with you in a moment. Calls may be monitored, etc. etc." After a ring or two, another voice says the office is closed, and to call back between "normal business hours, which are 8am to 8pm." No time zone is given. The call disconnects. It's 6:15pm. Bring up the music. Blogrolling in our time: Hornswoggled.net. About a minute: That's how long it took me to order a self-inking address stamp from Stamp-Connection.com. They were #3 on Google's list, but #1 didn't have enough room for my address, and #2 refused to believe there was anything in my shopping cart, whether I hit "add to cart" or "check out." And it forced me to re-enter everything. So there's my plug for somebody doing it right. It's a diaper! No, it's a sectional bookcase!: Dennis Ritchie himself explains the UNIX trademark. Brain food: The Brain just got $16 million from the VC wings of some Big Boys. Note that "knowledge management" is the hot VC topic now. I'm glad Harlan gets to ride that wave, but what makes the brain cool is still the way it organizes your stuff. Eat your spinnage: Sweet Fancy Moses, the blog  side of the Titanic Deck Chair Rearrangement Corporation has been launched on its first transpecific voyage. It's all part and (buoyant) parcel of the Chris Locke's Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices, due later this year from Perseus Publishing. Which will, if form holds, attract even more bookmarks than bullets. Dig the First Chapter.Following Dan: I see Dan has moved his blog from here to here. Good to see the old links to individual blogs aren't broken. I've seen too many cases when publishers break thousands of links by creating a whole new directory of "content" for their own convenience, vanity or both. Following rules: I'm using Craig's rules today. Interesting to see what difference it makes. I like being able to copy and paste this kind of stuff.
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